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Woolworths signs first wind farm supply deal in first step towards 100pct renewables
Supermarket giant Woolworths signs its first renewable energy PPA, buying power from the Bango Wind Farm being built near Yass.
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CP Daily: Thursday June 3, 2021
Virginia utility commission should approve Dominion’s RGGI rate request, hearing examiner says
Bus depot bid to be UK's largest electric vehicle charging hub
NA Markets: CCA prices rocket toward 2021 highs following Q2 auction, RGGI allowances stagnate before June sale
Humpback whales have been spotted 'bubble-net feeding' for the first time in Australia (and we have it on camera)
Euro Markets: EUAs slip towards €50 after technical breakout
WCI link “absolutely imperative” for Washington carbon market -senator
David Attenborough Netflix documentary: Australian scientists break down in tears over climate crisis
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet shows the toll the demise of the Earth’s natural places is having on the people who study them
One of Australia’s leading coral reef scientists is seen breaking down in tears at the decline of the Great Barrier Reef during a new Sir David Attenborough documentary to be released globally on Friday evening.
Prof Terry Hughes is recounting three coral bleaching monitoring missions in 2016, 2017 and 2020 when he says: “It’s a job I hoped I would never have to do because it’s actually very confronting …” before tears cut him short.
Continue reading...New David Attenborough film looks at Australia's bushfires and the climate crisis – video trailer
Breaking Boundaries: the Science of our Planet is a new Netflix documentary from Sir David Attenborough that visits scientists working on melting ice, the degradation of the Amazon, and the loss of biodiversity, and looks at the 2019-2020 'summer from hell' black summer bushfires that destroyed large swathes of Kangaroo Island
Continue reading...RFP: Scoping Agroforestry Project Potential in the VCS Program
Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientists
Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects
Ice sheets and ocean currents at risk of climate tipping points can destabilise each other as the world heats up, leading to a domino effect with severe consequences for humanity, according to a risk analysis.
Tipping points occur when global heating pushes temperatures beyond a critical threshold, leading to accelerated and irreversible impacts. Some large ice sheets in Antarctica are thought to already have passed their tipping points, meaning large sea-level rises in coming centuries.
Continue reading...EU carbon border levy proposed as ‘notional’ ETS with transition phase -draft
North Atlantic whales shrinking due to fishing gear entanglements
A right whale born today is expected to reach a total length about a meter shorter than one born 40 years ago, study finds
Whales in the North Atlantic are shrinking in size, researchers have found, with entanglements in fishing gear blamed for the steady decline in the length of the animals over recent generations.
On average, a right whale born today is expected to reach a total length about a meter shorter than one born 40 years ago, according to the new study. This is an average decline in length of about 7% during this period.
Continue reading...SK Market: Auction cancellation fails to halt KAU slide
Australia Market Roundup: Waste firm collects 120,000 ACCUs as reports sounds alarm over Woodside, BHP plans
The media is still mostly failing to convey the urgency of the climate crisis | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
We asked the world’s press to commit to treating climate change as the emergency that scientists say it is. Their response was dispiriting
The TV newsman Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of how Edward R Murrow, the pre-eminent US broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what became Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Murrow’s bosses at CBS News had other priorities; they ordered Murrow’s reporters to cover dance competitions in Hamburg, Paris and London, explaining that Americans needed some happy news. Murrow wouldn’t do it. “It’ll probably get us fired,” he told his colleagues, but he sent his correspondents to the German-Polish border; they arrived just in time to witness Hitler’s tanks and troops roar into Poland. Suddenly, Europe was at war. And Americans heard about it because journalists at one of the nation’s most influential news outlets defied convention and did their jobs.
Related: ‘This is it. If we don’t amp up, we’re goners’: the last chance to confront the climate crisis?
Continue reading...The Everglades are dying. An alliance between Biden and Republicans could save them
Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a $3.4bn deal to restore the freshwater preserve and Biden has earmarked funds to help
For years environmental groups warned the Florida Everglades, a vast 1.5m acre (607,000 hectare) subtropical preserve, may be doomed to extinction. Agricultural pollution, saltwater intrusion, and rampant real estate development had turned the waterways toxic and the state’s iconic environmental landmark was left to slowly choke to death. Perhaps until now.
A sweeping Everglades restoration effort decades in the making is finally seeing renewed optimism thanks to a cast of unlikely champions: Florida state Republicans. In April, Ron DeSantis, the governor, signed an agreement with the US Army Corps of Engineers to build a massive $3.4bn reservoir west of Palm Beach, which would help restore the flow of freshwater to the Everglades. Other state-funded projects to revitalize the region’s delicate ecosystem are already months ahead of schedule, DeSantis said.
Continue reading...World must rewild on massive scale to heal nature and climate, says UN
The ‘decade on ecosystem restoration’ launches with a call for ‘imagination’ and action on never-before-seen scale
The world must rewild and restore an area the size of China to meet commitments on nature and the climate, says the UN, and the revival of ecosystems must be met with all the ambition of the space race.
Existing conservation efforts are insufficient to prevent widespread biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, the global body has warned at the launch of the decade on ecosystem restoration, an urgent call for the large-scale revival of nature in farmlands, forests and other ecosystems.
Continue reading...‘You can see the tails’: bloated cod regurgitate mice amid Australian mouse plague
Discovery of ‘up to 10’ mice inside Murray fish highlights concerns about government’s bid to use bromadiolone poison to tackle plague
After years of drought, Aaron Graham was ecstatic to see the Macquarie River coming to life again. The water is higher, the river is clearer and the Murray cod that live there are fatter than ever.
However, the source of this abundant fish food supply comes from a rather unsavoury place.
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